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Compte rendu de Moccia (L.) (ed.). The Making of European Private Law: Why, How, What, Who – Schulze (R.), Zoll (Fr.) (eds). The Law of Obligations in Europe. A New Wave of Codifications
No full textMoccia (L.) (ed.). "The Making of European Private Law: Why, How, What, Who", Munich : Dr. Otto Schmidt éd, 2013, 225 p., ISBN : 9783866539907 - Schulze (R.), Zoll (Fr.) (eds). "The Law of Obligations in Europe. A New Wave of Codifications" Bruxelles : Intersentia, 2013, 458 p., ISBN : 9783866532465International audienc
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
Depression in Gambling Disorder: investigating the role of Kill-Joy Thinking
No full textBackground: Gambling Disorder has been seen to be associated with mood disorder as depression and anxiety. Several researchers have shed light on a mediating role of emotion dysregulation in the pathways by which depression leads to GD. However, no study investigated the potential role of a difficulty to regulate positive emotions in such pathway.
Method: We administered to a sample of addicted gamblers (N=75) and a sample of community participants (N=100) the South Oaks Gambling Screen (SOGS; Lesieur & Blume, 1987), the Depression Anxiety Stress Scales (DASS; Lovibond & Lovibond, 1995) and the Ways of Savoring Checklist (WOSC, Bryant & Weroff, 2007).
Results: As expected, addicted gamblers scored higher on every subscale of the DASS compared to community participants. Moreover, the clinical sample obtained higher scores on some subscales of the WOSC compared to the control group. Finally, a mediation analysis revealed that Kill-Joy-Thinking totally mediated the relationship between Depression and Gambling Disorder Severity.
Conclusions: Our results support previous studies showing that depression, anxiety and stress are important predictors of Gambling Disorder. Moreover, our study suggests that a difficulty to regulate positive emotions may account for the relationship between depression and Gambling Addiction
Positive and negative urgency among addicted gamblers: the role of emotional suppression
No full textBackground: Several empirical contributions brought contrasting results toward the role played by impulsivity and emotion regulation (ER) in Gambling Disorder (GD). Moreover, it is not clear how these two psychopathological aspects interact in relation to GD.
Method: We administered to a sample of addicted gamblers (N=70) and a sample of community participants (N=100) the South Oaks Gambling Screen (SOGS; Lesieur & Blume, 1987), the Impulsive Behavior Scale (Whiteside & Lynam, 2001) and the Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (Gross & John, 2003).
Results: As expected, addicted gamblers showed higher levels of impulsivity and suppression and lower levels of reappraisal compared to community participants. Moreover, GD severity was positively correlated to suppression and both negative and positive urgency but negatively correlated with reappraisal. Finally, a positive interaction between suppression and negative urgency emerged.
Conclusions: Our results extended previous research, suggesting that emotional components of impulsivity and deficits in ER may be involved in GD. Noteworthy, our study shed light on the interaction between ER capacities and the proneness to act rashly under the influence of negative emotions. Future directions toward the role of positive emotions accounting for GD are discussed
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